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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration' s Brain Initiative The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, ... Simons...

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Carnegie and MasterCard Foundation Headline African Higher Education Summit

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10/06/2014

... a call to action. The summit will mark the beginning of a new agenda for higher education in Africa,” says Dr Tendai Murisa, director of the summit’ s lead organiser TrustAfrica. The African Higher Education...

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Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

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11/03/2014

... Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation’ s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian issues began ... speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’ s philanthropic vanguard. After a...

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From Poverty to Giving Away Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream

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11/11/2014

... changed in 1965, when his mother, Beulah Spencer, a nurse' s aide, enrolled the 5-year-old in a new educational program called Head Start, which gave him "a .....

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Verizon Foundation to Support STEM Programs in 80 Schools

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12/05/2014

... for professional development for teachers or to leverage new technologies — like 3D printing, robotics or coding — ...

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What's Next for Community Philanthropy

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02/2015

To help funders adapt, the Monitor Institute’ s free, do-it-yourself What’ s Next for Community Philanthropy toolkit includes a series ... the full range of possibilities, and generate creative new approaches and models for the future. According to ...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... with LaGuardia for five years through the company’ s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a program offering management education and support services to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. The gift will nearly...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Backs Program to Address Patient Safety

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03/23/2015

... Program to Address Patient Safety The University of New England (UNE) has recently received a major grant from ...

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

... approval program. Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by the FDA in close to ... five decades. USAID is hoping that Johnson & Johnson’ s latest commitment will spur further...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Backs Innovative Glaucoma Research

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04/10/2015

... cells most susceptible to the disease - and help devise new prevention and therapy. At the present time, treatment ...

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Covenant Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Health and Well-Being of Jewish Teen Girls

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04/14/2015

... women and men took a risk and launched Rosh Hodesh: It’ s a Girl Thing! We wanted to offer a new teen-girl-centric model of Jewish education, one that ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

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05/07/2015

... May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to develop the first reliable method for ...

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

... today announced that Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Seattle will receive support to adopt ...

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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... Statistics show that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million new computer science jobs, but only 400,000 computer science students. It’ s time our education system prioritizes the skills these jobs ...

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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... at more than twice the rate that younger adults do, a new study finds. The worry of previous decades—that America’ s seniors weren’t receiving attention for mental health ...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program

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08/04/2015

Newman' s Own Foundation Launches Fellowship Program Newman' s Own Foundation announced its first formal class of Fellows. ... designed to expand, enhance, and diversify the pipeline of new...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces First Cities Selected to Join What Works Cities Initiative

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08/05/2015

... City, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; Mesa, Arizona; New Orleans, Louisiana; Seattle, Washington; and Tulsa, ...

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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

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08/14/2015

... than three years. As he explained to the Leading into New Communities re-entry council, “My driver’ s license was automatically suspended. I couldn’t vote in ...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds As U. S . immigrants and their descendants integrate into society, ... make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new report found their well-...

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